PENICILLAMINE

penicillamine, Cuprimine

(noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson’s disease and severe arthritis

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

penicillamine (countable and uncountable, plural penicillamines)

(chemistry) A breakdown product of penicillin used as a chelating drug to treat poisoning by heavy metals etc.

Source: Wiktionary



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28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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